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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 8164418, member: 5682&quot;][ATTACH=full]1425327[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for reviving this interesting thread. I vaguely remember reading that the Antony denarii were found in later hoards scattered throughout the Empire. Maybe I’m mistaken, but if true, I’m surprised that these coins were still prized and may have circulated years after his defeat at the Battle of Actium.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I understood Doug correctly, they had a lower quality of silver. They may have been kept, therefore, as much for sentimental reasons as a circulating coin. Maybe their later use would have been more accepted in the eastern part of the Empire were Antony was more popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m surprised that the Antony coinage would have been allowed to circulate freely after his defeat. That said, Augustus never invoked damnatio memoriae against Antony, which may explain a possible later widespread acceptance of his coinage despite his being deemed “an enemy of the state.”</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&amp;context=discentesjournal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&amp;context=discentesjournal" rel="nofollow">https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&amp;context=discentesjournal</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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